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Renard Prays For Lesotho Win Over Ghana
We will be big fans of Lesotho on Sunday, says Chipolopolo coach Herve Renard in the wake of Saturday’s disappointing 1-all draw against Sudan at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola.
And Sudan coach Muhammed Abdalla said his side was not out to favour Ghana by holding Zambia at their won backyard.
In a post match press conference, Renard said he was very disappointed with the result but was praying for a good result in Maseru where Ghana engages Lesotho.
The gaffer looked calm but declared his sqaud ready
Renard said if Lesotho played as spiritedly as Sudan played against Zambia, the Black Stars could be dimmed.
“We just have to wait and see what happens. We are going to be big fans of Lesotho tomorrow (Sunday),” he said.
“I hope Lesotho plays a good game like Sudan played against us today.”
Renard said Zambia had paid for a moment of lapse after having gone ahead on 70 minutes.
“We conceded one stupid corner and we made one mistake, in the end it was 1-1. It is all our fault. In football what matters is the final score.”
Renard said there was no excuse for the 1-all draw against Sudan.
“When there is a lot of support there is no excuse for failing and we failed today before a fantastic crowd. There is no excuse,” he said.
Renard said Zambia had to be consistent.
“In football it is always important to be consistent.”
Meanwhile, Sudan coach Abdallah said his men had not conspired with Ghana to put up a strong challenge against Zambia.
“We believe in fair play, we are not playing for the sake of Ghana or any team. We are the Sudan national team one of the founders of CAF. It is not our way,” he said.
Zambia has failed to defeat Sudan in this series losing 2-0 in the first leg, a result that was reversed after the latter used an ineligible player and drew Saturday’s encounter. Conversely, Ghana has picked maximum points over Sudan beating them 4-0 in Kumasi and inflicting a 3-1 hiding at their home ground.
The Ghanaians hauled a 7-0 win over Lesotho in the first leg and are looking to replicate their form in Maseru where Zambia dropped points by settling for a 1-all draw in March 2013 but restored some dignity when they vilified the Crocodiles last week with a 4-0 home result.
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wezzy na ray
June 16, 2013 at 7:08 am
lesotho has beaten the black star by 2 goal to nil…………..that doesnt read right what wrong with my sentence? Oh i know,lesotho cant beat beat the black fools.
Kenny G.
June 16, 2013 at 7:45 am
i saw the Game in my dream LESO 1 GHANA 0
Zed still on top of group
oliver
June 16, 2013 at 9:54 am
lets say its over,we cant depend on lesotho.
zuberi
June 16, 2013 at 9:57 am
****** excuses by RH, he was on the bench to see no such lapses occur in the team especially after scoring.
Charity .M
June 16, 2013 at 10:03 am
What ever happens today between Lesotho and Ghana all shall be well, coz I have seen Zambia qualifying to Brazil 2014 coz we are going to take it personal when we go to Ghana we did our best at levy stadium and its not in Zambia where we got the Africa cup its away from home we can still do it in Ghana no matter what, and we will support them all the way in spirit we will also be with them in Ghana to render the same support we give our team back home, lets go Zambia lets go, Chipolopolo for life we shall always be in green, Orange etc for our team, we will support you like never before,
Umu pondo
June 16, 2013 at 10:16 am
Expect the unexpected, Zambia lacks consistency.
Intelligent
June 16, 2013 at 11:37 am
To late! We lost it out when drew with Lesotho ! After being given FREE THREE POINTS and we fail to make it o brazil ! Then they must b a big problem with the coach or he players themselves or bonse fikopo sana!
alpscool
June 16, 2013 at 12:09 pm
at least we ve never been beaten by any team
WWCN
June 16, 2013 at 1:31 pm
i hate football of calculations. Zambia made a foolish mistake of allowing a silly goal. Anyway anything is possible in the game of football
a win or draw by Lesotho will be better for us. Lets hope they will not sale the game to the black stars because of the humiliation that they suffered at the hands of the Chipolopolo boys.
Kolokombwa
June 16, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Prayers wont work coach. Remember an hour of prayers on znbc tv a day b4 the match? It seems the football goddess was asleep or may be she was going around zambia explaining the removal of subsidies on maize and fuel. Whatever but true God doesnt support games.
Kriss
June 16, 2013 at 2:53 pm
Zambia 4- Lesotho 0. Zambia is the team of heroes **** off fans. Zambia 1 – Sudan 1. ohh no. Zambians pray for the national team we are a christian nation. what type of rubbish is this?
dnice
June 16, 2013 at 2:59 pm
does zambia always have to depend on other teams to make it to the important finals? this sucks!!!!!! i think its all over. how even in your wildest dream can you even think Ghana will lose to Lesotho? wake up and ask your boys to go back in training for the 2016 world cup finals
landa
June 16, 2013 at 4:23 pm
Ghana is leading by 1goal as at Half time.
wesu
June 16, 2013 at 4:26 pm
we are never serious we got three free points from sudan and we failed to beat them in zambia,we lost points in lesotho also in zambia we have lost points.Lets forget about 2014.sudan has proved to be a better side than zambia,we have ailed to beat them,period.Lets talk about cosafa.
zumbwe
June 16, 2013 at 4:41 pm
@ Charity M…That`s what I am talking about. I am impressed with your support for our national team. That`s the kind of motivation our team and country needs right now. Good luck Zambia.
(*v*)
June 16, 2013 at 5:20 pm
Lesotho 1 Ghana 0
Air Mukwai_
June 16, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Lesotho 0 2 Ghana
landa
June 16, 2013 at 5:44 pm
Ghana 2 lesotho 0.
Air Mukwai_
June 16, 2013 at 5:44 pm
Ethiopia 2 1 South Africa
child protector
June 16, 2013 at 6:46 pm
TERRIBLE AND UNJUSTIFIABLE,WHAT PRAYERS WHEN GHANA HAS BEATEN LESOTHO BY 2-0.
lumwana barrick
June 16, 2013 at 7:45 pm
bwana coach just do you and stop wishing Ghana to lose
make plan please
lumwana barrick
June 16, 2013 at 7:46 pm
bwana coach just do your job and stop wishing Ghana to lose
make plan please
concerned citizen
June 17, 2013 at 8:57 am
The problem of having glory hunting plastic fans is what we are seeing now that zambia has drawn,so what if we draw?what if we won in ndola but lost in ghana?we are not relying on other teams as you have put it,our fate is in our hands and if you think and ever thought zambia was to go to brazil without beatingghana in accra and expect to beat european teams in brazil then you are delusional,am not worried because i want my team to be properly tested to win AFCON we had to beat the hosts,ghana and ivory coast and that was deserved.I for one will be supporting chipolopolo in september and am sure should we win in accra just like in 2012 it will be the plastic undeserving fans like all of you who will celebrate more and shower praises than us,HYPOCRITES
nkayamailo toby
June 18, 2013 at 3:01 am
Never take a weak team to Brazil, becoz it will
raise Bp
wilson
June 19, 2013 at 12:29 pm
it was a bad omen for zambia for zambian women to offer free sex after beating ghana and cote d’ivoire to lift the african cup.
otherwise zambia is a good team whose style of play difficult for ghana to handle especially where ghana should use very heavy players like muntari, djan, badu agyeman afful all who are well know to the zambian coach.